Joyce DeWitt Quotes

I really don't feel like playing anymore.

I'm done in this business, that's for sure.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

I started not enjoying myself. It wasn't fun at times. And I always said when that point comes when it's not fun anymore, then I'm done.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

I'm never going to run this again.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season, I got really jaded and I wanted to quit.

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Groan and forget it.